This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Stiegler, B. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Teleologics of the Snail

The Errant Self Wired to a WiMax Network

Institute for Research and Innovation at the Pompidou Centre, stiegler.bernard{at}wanadoo.fr

In this article, I would like to show that, concerning this era of ubiquitous technology and its teleologics, the stakes concern the constitution of a new milieu of psychic and collective individuation (in Simondon's sense of these terms), which is at least as radically new as the writing of language was in its time; second, I attempt to show that what is at stake relates to the way technology changes the télos, that is, the rule of ends which shape the social organization of collective desire as a system of care and remedies; and, third, I argue that this era requires a new libidinal economy, if we admit that there can be no télos without desire. I will argue that new ubiquitous digital networks operating as new technical associated milieus have fundamental effects for symbolic and psychical associated milieus, and thus for new ways of being.

Key Words: associated milieu • desire • grammatization • singularity • teletechnologies • télos • transindividual

Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 26, No. 2-3, 33-45 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0263276409103105


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?